Forest Street Community Elementary School

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in ORANGE, New Jersey, Forest Street Community Elementary School caters to 384 students from grades pre-K through 7, overseen by ORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATION School District.

Forest Street Community Elementary School is one of 12 schools operated by ORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATION School District, a district that instructs 5,527 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Forest Street Community Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 46% Black. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Forest Street Community Elementary School logs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Essex County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Forest Street Community Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.8%; this one delivers 32.7%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Essex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Forest Street Community Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Hazel Avenue Elementary School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Forest Street Community Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 42.6%.

Forest Street Community Elementary School operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Forest Street Community Elementary School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 382 (now 384). The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 60% to 46% over that span.

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